In a discussion on patriotism, Jonah Goldberg delivered this gem:

And yet, for reasons that remain mysterious to me, many liberals seem to think that the U.N. is somehow a democratic institution because its members vote. Never mind that many of these votes are cast by people who don't represent their constituents in any democratic sense. The same ( Read more... )

It seemed necessary to break up Novak's speech into yet a third section (again, for purposes of brevity and separation of arguments). I've repeatedly argued that capitalism is a system that *is* moral, but it is *not* a system *of* morality. Communism wants to play at both and fails. Capitalism is purely an economic system and though it has many ( Read more... )

I'll be gone for the weekend so I figured I'd leave you with some food for thought:

1) How much do you know about the expulsion of Jews from their homes/businesses/synagogues in Gaza? Take the quiz! For more information on the "disengagement" see Daniel Pipe's article. Also, here are pictures of the massive anti-disengagement protests last week ( Read more... )

In a recent post, I linked to an article by Barbara Lerner. I also sent her an email and, lo and behold, she responded! Here is our correspondence:

Dear Ms. Lerner ( Read more... )

Well it's almost Shabbos and I have a ton of stuff I've been meaning to post so I want to unload some of it before I go on hiatus. Make sure to read the two posts before this one; I separated them from this post because I felt they merited their own entries. (And there's a lot of my own commentary!) Anyway, here goes:

1) A statue of Darth Vader is ( Read more... )